Special RESAC sponsored Session at the Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, in New York City, 28 February - 3 March 2001

AAG Special Session on Land-use and Land-cover change in the mid-Atlantic Region (1 March 2001, Session 5.1.15)

   8:00 Scott Goetz, University of Maryland, Land Cover of the Mid-Atlantic Region: Results from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center

   8:20 John Morgan, Towson State Unversity, Developing Impervious Surface Maps for the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland Coastal Bay Watersheds

   8:40 Douglas Fuller, George Washington University, Landsat-based Study of Land-use and Land-cover change in Loudoun County, Virginia

   9:00 Dorn C. McGrath, Jr., George Washington University, Loudoun County, Virginia-Indicators of Environmental Change

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   10:00 Andy Johnston, Smithsonian Institution, Remote Sensing of Urban Land-cover Types in the Washington D.C. Area

   10:20 Todd Schroeder, Canaan Valley Institute, Characterization of Wetland Plant Communities of the mid-Atlantic Highlands Using Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Data

   10:40 Philip A. Townsend, University of Maryland, Modeling Forest Composition and Disturbance in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands: Causes and Effects

   11:00 Jeffrey G. Masek, University of Maryland, Automated Strategies for Regional Land-cover Studies: The Mid-Atlantic Example